my hope for young creative people is that they strive to do more than create "content" "content" is the word of the enemy

Hey, here's a great list by @jmassat.bsky.social of every writer/pitch bible for animated shows from the internet archive! jmassat.com/2024/08/05/e...

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GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Pleinair Paintings in Los Angeles

"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.

Forget it, Jake, it's Threads

Finally got to do some cafe sketching for the first time since having a son. Snuck this in between bottles and wake windows. Not bad for a quick loose take on the barista. Feels good to be back.

someone in AI fucked up and actually told the truth

Every time an AI scumbag blocks me, I grow stronger. Your grift means nothing to me and I am impervious to your "inevitable" bullshit. I know you are liars, and every time you breathlessly talk about how you can't tell if your LLM is alive or not, I have less reason to respect or trust you.

OpenAI is Trump's biggest supporter. Just another reason to quit using all A.I. now.

I have determined that everything right now is All Too Much and it needs to be Considerably Less, so if reality could just dial it down a fucking iota or two, I think we'd all like that

“The murdering will continue until you stop calling us murderers.”

My first sketch of our baby boy. As a model he wasn’t the most cooperative but he’s certainly the cutest.

In November we welcomed our son Tomas into the world. It was a little early and a lot scary. But thankfully mother and son are happy and healthy and we are so grateful for our beautiful new family.

I’ve curated another starter pack, this time to make it easier to find artists working in the illustration and comics fields! (If you qualify to be on this list but are not on it let me know, I will fill it up until it hits the 150 limit!) go.bsky.app/JU83vmM

CODE 3 is one of the funniest movies of the year according to @moviesaretherapy.bsky.social: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8y5oT84/

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

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We can't afford these people

Our gorgeous #WakeUpDeadMan end credit portraits, painted from life by Isabella Watling. We’re still in theaters, see my pinned post for a theater finder!

Old Boy Todd

talkin' about the AI bubble

I cosign every single word of this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I recently challenged my Vis-Dev students to a 4-hour Design Sprint, and did a little write up about it on my Substack! betsybauer.substack.com/p/four-hour-...

it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax

Oreoboros

I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.

No. That’s enough of Bob’s shit now, this man needs to go.

Is it possible to double cancel Disney+?

I love this.

Started this lighting study last night to practice using @maxulichney.bsky.social ‘s oil brushes and I may end up rendering this one out more.

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“Voice of the Canids” #NossSaga #Illustration

I've said this about writing and art -- the goal was not to replace writers and artists with AI, the result was either: a) *threaten* to replace them with AI, and use that as leverage to be able to pay them less b) replace them unsuccessfully and pay them less to fix the shit the AI barfed out

Here we go! See you guys at Lightbox soon!

I have so many recs All the @maxulichney.bsky.social sets are probably the best of the best if you want to replicate traditional materials and techniques

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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CODE 3 is available TODAY on Apple/Amazon/Fandango at Home or wherever you rent or buy your movies. I can’t tell you what to do but in your heart you know what’s right. #code3movie

I hate unboxing videos. HOWEVER, I am a CARTOONIST. So.

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

obsessed

Cancelled Disney+ and Hulu. Been a busy year, selling my Tesla, boycotting Amazon, Target, Twitter and more. Adapting hasn't been as hard as I expected and it's led to supporting more local businesses as well.

This Week's Onion Magazine:

This guy not only took credit from my fellow Lorcana colleagues but also claimed to be an official Disney artist to inflate sales. In reality he has been black listed from the company for years after sketchy behavior. youtu.be/EqmvqrdHaSc?...